Tony Walker
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It might be someone real and not one of them.
She took a candle and tiptoed along the passage of the hall, a bare, desolate place reeking of dirt and vermin, which Amelia dreaded and seldom entered.
There was no one there, but the sound of sobbing was louder.
"'Oh, God!'
moaned her voice.
"'I cannot bear it!
I cannot bear it!'
Then came a laugh, a sly, sinister chuckle, and the wailing voice rose to a scream, Oh God, I cannot bear it!
As Amelia went back to the kitchen, her face twitched violently and uncontrollably.
Was that real or not?
Was it just a sound in her head, as Miss Pendleham said it must be?
Just a fancy?
If so, she was going mad like Miss Davis.
What happened to mad people in that other world?
Were they mad there, too?
And forever?
That didn't bear thinking about.
She must die before that happened.
She was dying.
She knew that by the terrible pains in her heart.